Blizzard has proven that they aren't really that good at server technology. The servers went down for a long period and still suffer from downtime. If they cannot fix such a basic thing, what guarantees D3 gamers have of them having a strong server security in the first place, considering that any game using real money always attracts the seedy part of the internets?

If Diablo3 had been developed and published by another publisher like EA or Ubisoft and was called something else but everything else remained equal, would people be so fervent in defending the game then?

I'm starting to think D3 may have been the first observable game that sold on name and name alone.